## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 06 04 2020 **To** 05 04 2021 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1159414 Rainow Village Bus **Charity's principal address** Tower, Hill House, Rainow, Macclesfield, Cheshire **Postcode SK10 5TX** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Ken Butler|Chairman||| ||TonyWilkinson|Treasurer||| ||Tim Grimes|Secretary||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** March **2012** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**
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**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by the trustees Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: Three Trustees are responsible for overall strategy and direction whilst other volunteers undertake specific tasks (including driving the bus) as the need arises. There has been no change in the Trustees during this reporting period. - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** Rainow Village Bus (RVB) provides services which are available to all the residents of the village of Rainow in East Cheshire. RVB operates a 15 seat minibus which provides residents with a timetabled transport service between Rainow and neighbouring towns outside the operating hours of the commercial bus service and is available for hire by all the charitable, voluntary, community and social groups in Rainow and nearby villages at other times as required. **TAR** March **2012** 2 This has nominally been the sixth full year of operation by RVB. However due to Covid restrictions we were able to fulfil only one booking during the period under review. Scheduled services have been suspended completely during this period. The charity is a charitable incorporated organisation with a constitution lodged with the Charities Commission. Trustees are elected by a meeting of all available volunteers and are expected to serve at least three years. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** Locally devised systems for seat and group hire bookings and vehicle operation are used and services are publicised by a website specific to RVB as well as on the Rainow Village website. Regular articles providing updates of RVB activities appear in the quarterly village magazine. All vehicle management administration (servicing, maintenance, MOT checking, driver rotas) is carried out by Trustees or volunteers. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** All activities are carried out by volunteers. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** March **2012** 3 ## Section D Achievements and performance ## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** Throughout reporting period the RVB service has been largely suspended due to the Covid-19 restrictions. In fact it was only possible to undertake one booking throughout the year, In past years a variety of village groups (e.g. Scouts, Guides, Air Cadets, Church groups, Women’s Institute, local Primary Schools, rambling groups and other local social groups) have hired the vehicle for journeys of varying lengths throughout the period. A good example of how this service had created new community activities was a regular booking to take Rainow residents to the local cinema in Macclesfield. There had also been an increase in schools and community groups from neighbouring villages taking advantage of the availability of the bus. Clearly it has not been possible to provide this service during this reporting period. We are confident that following the lifting of Covid restrictions demand on the service will return towards levels seen in previous. We have already started to see this happening in the second half of 2021. **TAR** March **2012** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the** **charity’s policy on reserves** Rainow Village Bus endeavours to maintain sufficient cash reserves to cover running expenses during the year including unexpected expenses particularly those involving vehicle maintenance. At this stage, we anticipate that, despite the significant impact that Covid restrictions have had on our finances, there are sufficient cash reserves - to see us through the Covid 19 pandemic. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; Passengers pay a small charge to use the bus on scheduled services and groups pay a hire charge based on time used and distance covered. All charges are standard to the users. During 2016 we had received a grant from the Department of Transport Community Minibus Fund for a new bus (a Mercedes Sprinter 514) which was received in November 2016. This current reporting period should have been the fourth full year with the new bus. - Our income during the year was £230, while our expenditure was £2129. At the end of the financial year our cash in the bank was £4546. - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** The new bus continues to ensure that the Rainow Village Bus is on a firm financial footing. The continued increase in group bookings provides confidence that the service will be able to continue for some years before any further finance is needed. In only its fifth full year of operation, RVB is now seen as firmly established with good prospects. The Covid-19 restrictions will have a significant impact on the provision of this service in 2020 and 2021 but we believe that RVB has sufficient cash reserves to weather this. ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Anthony James Wilkinson **Full name(s)** Anthony James Wilkinson **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc) Date** 19/10/2021 **TAR** March **2012** 5 |**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Rainow Village Bus**||**1159414**||| |**Receipts and payments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
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05/04/2021||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
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**230**
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**230**
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**2,129**
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**-**|**4,546**|**5,095**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 20/10/2021 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
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