Ildale Road Frecheville Sheffield S124YD Tel: 01142037817 e.Il•il: fre¢hevillelibra mail.¢om oL'dCharityNo:1158647 FLLC TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT 2025 Charity Name Frecheville Library and Leaming Centre Registered Charity No. 1158647 Charity's Principle Address 83 Smalldale Road Frecheville Sheffield S124YD Trustees Miss Liz Katharyn Grant Mr. Stephen Burgin Miss Chrtstine Williamson Chair Treasurer Volunteer Management of the Charity The Charity has three appointed trustees and has been running the Library for over ten years. The affairs of the Charty are managed by a team of seven volunteers from which members are appointed to the positons of Chair. Treasurer, Secretsry, Library Manager, Fundraising Officer and Publicity offi￿r. Fortunately, the seven members of the committee have been together for many years and so provide a wealth of experience and continuity in the running of the Charity. In January, a volunteer was nominated and accepted onto the committee as secretary to repla￿ the existing secretsry who wished to resign the post but remain on committee. The committee holds quarterly review meetings to review the business accounts, resolve any ongoing issues and discuss any future plans or activities. Volunteer Recruitment The number of volunteers has remained consistent throughout the year at 28, The volunteers have perfotmed brilliantly as a team to ensure the Library has been able to open 100 % of its stated opening hours. Advertising for volunteers is on the library website, on Facebook, on X, in the library and by word of mouth. This has created a slow steady flow of new volunteers that have replaced the volunteers that have left. Applications from the public to become a vOlunt￿r in Frecheville Library and Learning Centre are most welcome. Details for volunteering can be found on our Website, on Fa￿bOOk or in the Library. No volunteer meetings were held ex￿pt for the AGM. Activities & Objectives The primary activities are Loaning Books etc Offering support and infonnation Photo copy service . Public access to Computers, printing and the internet Fundraising from the sales of donated books, jigsaws, plants, CD'S and knitted items Organising events such as book sales, quiz nights, meet the author and entertainment to encourage greater connection with members of the public Other activities are Yoga classes Knit and Natter group Mother and Toddler group Reading group Writing group Children's Lego group Craft and Chat group Games club The financial support from the local council remains vital to our sustainability. Visitor numbers have increased slightly but income is relatively unchanged. With a healthy balance in the bank (after many years of focused fundraising), the Committee felt there was little need to hold any Fayres in the year. Fayres require an enomous amount of volunteers support to organise and run so to ease the pressure on our volunteers the Committee agreed to organise less demanding fundraising initiatives like more frequent raffles and tombola. Achievements and Performance Fundraisin We raised £5108 from our fundraising efforts. The main items being £1216 from selling donated books, jigsaws, CD and Dvd's. £950 from Interest on a Savings account £640 from Knit and Natter £621 from Yoga classes £559 from public donations & gifts £362 from Photocopying and printing £347 from Tombola and Raffles £215 from room hire and refreshment sales £198 from the Games club and Craft chat. Commun Garden A small team of dedicated volunteers meet one aftemoon a w&k to care for the community garden. They cut the grass, weed the flower beds, prune and Coppi￿ the trees and undertake all ne￿SSary maintenan￿. In the spring and summer it is a joy to see all the flowers in their glorious colours. The garden is a magnet for parents with young children who love to play on the trampoline, the hammock, the turbo ball, Connect 4, in the Wendy house or just running around for the fun of it. Parents often just sit on the garden seats and watch their children having fun while enjoying complimentary cuppa and a biscuit. Many visttors and parents have commented and praised the garden for its colour, its variety of plants, flowers and above all the safe Spa￿ it provides for young children. We the committee are extremely delighted with the investment of time and money in the garden to transform it from just a large area of just grass land into a fun place for young children. The committee S￿ the garden as the gateway to attracting young children to the library. To see them having a good time, enjoying the experience and hopefully wanting to visit time and time again. We hope these children will become the next generation of readers and library users. Grants Our applications for two extra Grants were approved in the new financial year. We received £1000 from Sheffield City Council Library ServI￿S to buy new books and £750 from the Labour Ward Pot fund to finan￿ free refreshments for visitors and a new Library sign on the outside of the building. The Book Grant enables us to continually upgrade our book stock with the latest book releases and is a significant factor in retsining and gaining new members and visitors to the library. This extra money allowed us to increase our spending on new Books to £1338. The balan￿ of the Ward pot from the previous year allowed us to purchase a new Main computer £651. This yearfs Ward Pot Grant allowed us to repla￿ a fading old weather-beaten Library sign and enabled us to offer complimentary refreshments of a cuppa with a small packet of biscuits to all visitors to the library in the hope that they would visit more regularly. The Warm Spaces Grant enabled us to purchase £408 of indoor games to support our Games Club night Savin s account Interest One of our two savings accounts matured and we received £950 in interest. This amount of money is equal to the pro￿edS of two Fayres. The Libra buildin The Library was constructed in 1955. It was built in the Vic Hallam" design of construction which was very popular in Sheffield at that time. The building is predominantly a wooden structure wtth timber upright support beams being fa￿d with hardwood timber cladding. Buildings of this design were deemed to have an expected lifespan of about 30 years. From the moment the volunteers took over the running of the Library in 2014 they have raised the issue of rot and decay at the bottom of the cladding with the Council. In April 2024 the Council prepared to repla the bottom 1 metre of rotten cladding. Materials were delivered to site arKI in October the repair work began but soon after starting, it was stopped because the rot in the timber upright beams was considered too bad to prOC￿d. A council structural engineer visited to assess the rot and the planned repair work was suspended indefinitely. In February 2025 a meeting was held between the Library Trustees, the Council Maintenance Manager, representatives from the Council Library services and our two local Labour councillors. The Council rna1ntenan￿ manager explained the state of disrepair, the options the Council had considered and the costs associated to those options. None of the Council options presented were considered viable to the Trustees and equally the associated costs were too expensive for the Council. A possible solution was to consider approaching a number of Council approved subcontractors to invite them to put forward a costed repair proposal. By the year end there had been no further progress. The Trustees were waiting for the relevant information from the Council Maintenance Manager. The Future The Committ￿ remains optimistic about the fvture and will seek every opportunity to increase the range of activities in the library, to improve the fabric of the building and to seek funding to make further improvements. Financial Review A full detailed account is supplied separately. A summary is given below Recei The total re￿ipts were The itemised receipts were SCC Grant Funding SCC Book Grant 2025 Labour Ward Pot Grant Library Fundraising Sales Donations and gifts I nterest from Savings £13109 £6251 £1000 £750 £3599 £559 £950 ments The total payments were The itemised payments were Heating, Lighting & Water Insuran Repairs & Equipment Sundries and Stationery SCC Book Grant 2020 Labour Ward Pot Grant 2024 SCC Book Grant 2023 Labour Ward Pot Grant 2025 System Rental & Refuse Warm spa￿ Grant Wifi Council Tax Garden materials SCC IT Grant Bank charges Cleaning materials & Safety £9839 £2251 £1191 £940 £888 £763 £651 £575 £568 £473 £408 £360 £130 £120 £86 £80 £55 Closing Bank balan￿ & cash £61250 Year on year, the total balan￿ grew by £3270. Restricted funds at the year*nd were £6343 which is £1929 lower than the previous year due to increased spending. All monies retained are to cover any unexpected Maintenan￿ or ne￿SSary improvements to the building which is over 69 years old. At the year*nd there were no outstanding debt and no funds were held by a custodian trustee. S, g<**from**|Period start date
**For the period**
1st April 2024||**To**|||Period end date
31st March 2025|||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|||**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 £**|| |**A1 Receipts**
SCC LibraryFundingGrant 2025
**-**
**6,251**
**-**
**6,251**
**6,251**
SCC Book Grant 2025
**-**
**1,000**
**-**
**1,000**
**1,000**
Ward Pot Grant
**-**
**750**
**-**
**750**
**750**
General Sales & Fundraising
**4,158**
**-**
**-**
**4,158**
**5,579**
Interest from SavingAccount
**950**
**-**
**-**
**950**
**-**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_
**5,108**
**8,001**
**-**
**13,109**
**13,580**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
Openingbalances
**49,708**
**8,272**
**-**
**57,980**
**51,906**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 49,708**
**8,272**
**-**
**57,980**
**51,906**
**_Total receipts_**
**54,816**
**16,273**
**-**
**71,089**
**65,486**
~~SSS SSS =~~
~~—————_——~~||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||| |Council tax & Wifi||**490**|**490**|**-**|**-**||**490**||**358**|| |Heating,Lighting& Water||**2,551**|**551**|**-**|**-**||**2,551**||**2,257**|| |Equipment, Repairs & Garden Matl's||**1,060**|**060**|**-**|**-**||**1,060**||**277**|| |Insurance||**1,191**|**191**|**-**|**-**||**1,191**||**1,067**|| |Refuse,System and Bank Charges||**553**|**553**|**-**|**-**||**553**||**541**|| |Sundries,H&S and CleaningMatl's||**550**|**550**|**-**|**-**||**550**||**568**|| |Stationery& Crafts||**393**|**393**|**-**|**-**||**393**||**349**|| |Labour Ward Pot 2024||**568**|||||**568**|||| |Warm Spaces Grant 2024||**408**|||||**408**|||| |Labour Ward Pot 2023||**651**|||||**651**|||| |SCC Book Grant 2023||**575**|||||**575**||**925**|| |SCC Book Grant 2020||**763**|||||**763**|||| |SCC IT Grant 2021||**86**|||||**86**||**637**|| |SCC Garden Grant|||||||||**519**|| |SCC Book Grant 2022|||||||||**8**|| |||||**-**|**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ -**
**9,839**
**-**
**9,839**
**7,506**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**-**
**9,839**
**-**
**9,839**
**7,506**
~~=e~~||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**54,816**
**6,434**
**-**
**61,250**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**54,816**
**6,434**
**- 61,250**
~~—————~~|||||||||**57,980**
**-**
**-**
**57,980**|**57,980**
**-**
**-**
**57,980**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 04/11/2025 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**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
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|System Computer & Printer
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
( g
p
p y
account(s))
Savings Account
Cash in Hand & in Bank
**Details**
**Details**
Bespoke Book Cases x 2
Network Computers x 3
New Books
Storage Cupboards x 5
Garden Equipment & Tools
CCTV System
SecurityFencing
**Details**
Signature
S.Burgin|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**54,816**
**-**
**-**
**54,816**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||**54,816**|**6,434**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**54,816**|**6,434**|**-**| |||||| |||||**Endowment**
**to nearest £**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
| |||||~~**(optional)**~~
**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
| |||||~~**(optional)**~~
**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||Date of
approval| ||S.Burgin|Stephen Burgin||03.10.2025| |||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 04/11/2025 2