## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** ||Period start date|Period start date|||Period end date|Period end date|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||1|Jan|2020||31|Dec|2020| |**From **||||**To**|||| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Bryn Residents Action Group **Other names charity is known by** BRAG **Registered charity number (if any)** 1158947 **Charity's principal address** 5 Bryn Varteg, Bryn, Port Talbot **Postcode SA13 2RJ** **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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2|**Trustee name**|**Office(if any)**|**Dates acted if not for wholeyear**| |---|---|---|---| ||Paul Bulmer|Chair|NA| ||Dafydd Bowen||NA| ||John Thomas||NA| ||Dianne Thomas||NA| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of adviser **
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**Address**| |---|---|---| |Bank|Lloyds|115 Station Road, Port Talbot, SA13 1NR| |||| |||| |||| **TAR** March **2012** 1 **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution- adopted 23[rd] October 2013 Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Trustees are elected from and by the members of BRAG during the Trustee selection methods Annual General Meeting. (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** • BRAG are members of Neath Port Talbot Council for Voluntary Service (NPT CVS) and have access to roles and responsibilities information via the website. They also receive regular news bulletins. **TAR** March **2012** 2 ## **Section C Objectives and activities** |**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit in relation to**
**these objects**|The objects of BRAG are:
The promotion for the benefit of the public of urban or rural regeneration
in areas of social and economic deprivation (and in particular in the
village of Bryn) by all or any of the following means:
(a) the maintenance, improvement or provision of public amenities:
(b) the preservation of buildings or sites of historic or architectural
importance:
(c) the provision of recreational facilities for the public at large or those
who by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial
hardship or social and economic circumstances, have need of such
facilities:
(d) the protection or conservation of the environment:
(e) the promotion of public safety and prevention of crime:
(f) Such other means as may from time to time be determined subject to
the prior written consent of the Charity Commissioners for England and
Wales."| |---|---| ||Using a grant from the Big Lottery, we obtained a 25yr lease from NPT
Council for the derelict Tennis Courts area on Bryn Recreation Ground.
During 2020, we maintained these grounds, arranged the annual safety
inspection and organised activities to make full use of these facilities.
Having establishment of a 4-mile heritage walk at the edge of the village,
starting in the Bryn Nature reserve picnic area and returning to this point.
The path has been kept clear of fallen trees, undergrowth etc. Further
stones had to be laid in sections to bridge steams and bogs and drainage
ditches dug by hand. Way markers and signage have been maintained or
replaced as required. All this work was undertaken by voluntary members
of BRAG. The route continues to be maintained on a monthly basis.
BRAG also maintains a picnic and memorial located at the start of this
walk.
In the past, we undertook a number of one off activities such as installing
a memorial to the memory of local miners and organising the official
opening of this. The old coal dram rescued from the school closure the
year before was used as part of this memorial. We continue to maintain
this memorial site.
We have now been running a Bryn IT Club in the local community centre
for several years to help anyone but especially older people, to overcome
the challenges of a digital era and help prevent digital exclusion. In 2019
this was extended to become the Bryn and Cwmafan IT club, drawing
members from a much wider base and working with the Neath and Port
Talbot digital inclusion officer.| **TAR** March **2012** 3 Other activities include: - Helping with the running of the Richard Burton Race, attracting almost two thousand runners and raising money for local charities. - Support of social clubs in the village such as an IT Club, a Heritage Club, an over 50’s club, a Bowling Club, a Cricket Team, etc. - Community events such as a Halloween Party, a Christmas Event and an annual Party in the Park. - We also produce and deliver a bi-monthly village newsletter and run a village website and social media groups. In planning and delivering all the individual activities and plans for the year the Trustees have considered and had regard to the Public Benefit guidance issued by the Charity Commission. **TAR** March **2012** 4 Section D Achievements and performance With Covid restrictions, many of our normal activities were restricted **Summary of the main** during 2020. We started the year with most of our normal activities and **achievements of the charity** when things were eased in the summer, we had an unveiling of the two **during the year** defibrillators we had installed in the village. These had a value of over £4,000 for defibrillators, housings and installation but thanks to charitable discounts; they were installed for much less. We have also worked with other organisations to help deliver many other activities for the village such as monthly walks, including an evening walk during the summer months. We have worked alongside Afan Environment group to help protect the environment in the surrounding area. We were unable to deliver the village newsletter due to Covid restrictions. However, we have continued to deliver news and information via social media and village notice boards. We also helped village residents by providing support with things like medical prescription delivery and support of the vulnerable. ## **Section E Financial review** The trustees have considered a reserves policy and felt it is necessary to **Brief statement of the** keep £5,000 to cover any potential damage to assets such as tennis **charity’s policy on reserves** court nets and to sustain BRAG through any short-term drought in grant funding. £5000 would cover running costs such as insurance, lease rents, printing, etc. for about two years. ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** • The organisation has had limited sources of income during the pandemic resulting in a £2k reduction in our account balance over the year. **TAR** March **2012** 5 ## **Section F Other optional information** In future years, when the pandemic restrictions allow, we intend to continue the regular activities as listed in this report plus planned new activities that include: - Introduce Sports coaching on the village playing fields - Organise the annual events such as Party in the Park, Halloween, Christmas, etc. - Work with other groups to deliver sports, protect the environment, deliver supervised walks, etc. - Protect and publicise the local heritage of the area. ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Dafydd Bowen **Full name(s)**[Paul Bulmer ] **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee & Chair Trustee **etc) Signature(s)** Dianne Thomas **Full name(s)**[John Thomas ] **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee Trustee **etc) Date** 28/07/2021 **TAR** March **2012** 6 **Bryn Residents Action Group (CIO) 1158947 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the 1/1/2020 31/12/2020 To period from** |**Bryn Residents Action Group (CIO)**
**1158947**
**CC16a**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
**For the**
**period from**
**1/1/2020**
**To**
**31/12/2020**|**Bryn Residents Action Group (CIO)**
**1158947**
**CC16a**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
**For the**
**period from**
**1/1/2020**
**To**
**31/12/2020**|**Bryn Residents Action Group (CIO)**
**1158947**
**CC16a**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
**For the**
**period from**
**1/1/2020**
**To**
**31/12/2020**|**Bryn Residents Action Group (CIO)**
**1158947**
**CC16a**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
**For the**
**period from**
**1/1/2020**
**To**
**31/12/2020**|**Bryn Residents Action Group (CIO)**
**1158947**
**CC16a**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
**For the**
**period from**
**1/1/2020**
**To**
**31/12/2020**|**Bryn Residents Action Group (CIO)**
**1158947**
**CC16a**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
**For the**
**period from**
**1/1/2020**
**To**
**31/12/2020**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Section A Receipts and**|**payments**|||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total**
**funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Donations received|**500**|||**500**||**735**| |Donation from National Heritage||||||**3,700**| |IT Club subscriptions|**126**|||**126**||**171**| |Fund raising activities||||||**1,880**| |Halloween & Christmas party receipts||||||**848**| |Richard Burton 10k donation|**237**|||**237**||**200**| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**864**|**-00**|**-00**|**864**||**7,534**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**
**table).**||||||| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|||| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**| |**_Sub total_**
**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**| |||||||| ||**864**|**-**|**-**|**864**||**7,534**| |||||||| |Room hire|**11**|||**11**||**100**| |Newsletter printing costs||||||**220**| |Laptop and software for heritage project|**780**|||**780**||| |Safety inspections|**60**|||**60**||**72**| |Cost of defibrillators|**1,200**|||**1,200**||**486**| |#ERROR!|**437**|||**437**||**444**| |Tennis court rent||||||**30**| |PA system|**125**|||**125**||| ||Tennis court maintenance|||**32**||||||**32**||||**59**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Unpaid cheque|||||||||||||**500**|| ||Thank you gifts|||**60**||||||**60**|||||| ||Wreath for Remembrance Day|||**25**||||||**25**||||**25**|| ||Stationery|||||||||||||**25**|| ||Entertainment and events|||||||||||||**789**|| ||||||||||||||||| |||**_Sub total_**||**2,730**||||||**2,730**||||**2,750**|| ||||||||||||||||| ||**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||||| ||**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||||| |||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|||||| |||||**-**||**-**||**-**|||||||| ||**_Sub total_**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|||||||| ||||||||||||||||| ||**_Total payments_**|||**2,730**||**-**||**-**||**2,730**||||**2,750**|| ||||||||||||||||| ||**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|||**-1,867**||**-00**||||**-1,867**||||**4,784**|| ||**A5 Transfers between funds**|||**-**|||||||||||| ||**A6 Cash funds last year end**|||**16,289**||||||**16,289**||||**11,551**|| ||||||||||||||||| ||**_Cash funds this year end_**|||**14,422**||**-00**||||**14,422**||||**16,335**|| ||||||||||||||||| |**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**|**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**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|||**Endowment**|| |**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**||**funds**|||**funds**|| ||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**|| |**B1 Cash funds**|Bank and cash||**14,422**||**-00**||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||**_Total cash funds_**||**14,422**||**-00**||||| ||(agree balances with receipts and
payments account(s))||OK||OK|||OK|| ||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|||**Endowment**|| ||||**funds**||**funds**|||**funds**|| ||**Details**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**|| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| **B3 Investment assets** **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** **B5 Liabilities** Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees **Fund to which Cost Current value Details asset belongs (optional) (optional) Fund to which Cost Current value Details asset belongs (optional) (optional) Fund to which Amount due When due Details liability relates (optional) (optional)** Date of Signature Print Name approval ## Report to the Trustees and Members of Bryn Residents Action Group Charities in England and Wales are regulated by the Charity Commission for England and Wales and are subject to the requirements set by the Charities Act 1993. Under section 43 of the Charities Act 1993 an audit for a financial year is required if the: charity’s gross income in that year exceeds £500,000, or aggregate value of the charity’s assets, without deducting any liabilities, exceeds £3.26m and its gross income exceeds £250,000. Charities which are not required to have an audit of their accounts are required to have an independent examination if their gross income exceeds £25,000. In addition for charities with gross income exceeding £250,000 the independent examiner will need to hold a relevant professional qualification. Bryn Residents Action Group is not required to undertake an independent examination as its gross income is less than £25,000 As Bryn Residents Action Group gross income is less than £500,000 and there are no assets the charity is not required to carry out an audit as required by the Companies Act 2006. **Terry Filer FCCA** **12-Jul-21** Suggest some funds are transferred to a deposit account to earn interest. ## Bryn Residents Action Group Bank analysis for the year ended 31 December 2020 |Receipts|||Details|Event|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||27/2/2020|116.40|IT club subs||||| ||27/2/2020|10.00|IT club subs||||| ||15/4/2020|237.44|Richard Burton BRAG|insurance|||| |||363.84|||||| |||||||CHQ|| ||18/2/2020|174.20|laptop software||20004||Charity digital exchange - software for heritage project| ||18/2/2020|603.00|Currys online||20005||Heritage project laptop| ||4/3/2020|11.00|NPTCBC||20003|000142|Room rental| ||14/4/2020|437.44|Ladbrook ins||20009||Tennis court insurance| ||7/8/2020|2.54|PayPal Kenable||20011||Lead for laptop| ||17/8/2020|1200.00|Heartbeat trust||20012||Defibrillator| ||24/9/2020|27.73|PJ Morgan||20013||Repairs to climbing board| ||19/10/2020|14.58|Frederick Bulme||||Flowers £10 & £4.58 postcrete| ||19/10/2020|25.00|John Thomas||||Wreaths for cenotaph| ||3/11/2020|125.00|ebay||20017||Fenton PA systems| ||11/11/2020|50.00|John Thomas||20016||Thank you to Fitzpatrick twins for making a replacement bench at tennis court| ||17/12/2020|59.95|Mr J Widdas safety rep||20018||Tennis court safety inspection| |||2730.44|||||| |Opening bal @ 1/1/20|16289.22| |---|---| |Receipts|363.84| |Donation (missing bank statement)|500.00| |Payments|-2730.44| |Closing balance @ 31/12/20|14422.62| |Balance per bank statement|14422.62| ||0.00|