FRIENDS OF CHRISTCHURCH STATION CIO Number 1159 Income Expenditure and Balance Account Read in Conjuction with the Petty Cash Account for Balances upto Feb 2024. YEAR END￿￿ FEB 2023 - 2024 99 PAYEE CHQ NO DATE RECEIVED PAID OUT BALANCE 24 Feb 2023 Balance blf 00 6 334.15 Bank Charges 241March 5.00 6,329.15 0.00 Bank Charges 241April 5.00 6,324.15 0:00 Bank Charges 241May 5.00 6,319.15 0.00 Bank Charges 241June 5.00 6,314.15 0.00 Bank Charges (Pety Cash Cheque) 151July 20, July 5.00 60.00 6,309.51 6,249.15 0.00 Expenses paid direct to volunteer. Bank Charges with Additional Charges Aug Zurich Insuran￿ 100049 61Sep Bank Charges Bank Charges 6,243.51 6.086.51 6,081.51 6,076.11 157.00 0.00 5.00 15 Oct 0.00 5.40 Bank Charges CLOSING 17 Nov 0.00 30.00 6 046.11 Balnce out oin 0.00 288.04 BANK BALANCE 17 Nov 00.00 Moved to PETTY CASH (Volunteer Expenses 17 Nov cash repaid direct planting + compost repaid 17Nov DecorationlRepairs from Reserves and Loan Account Duelpaid from Reserves 6 046.11 100.00 3946.11 2000.00 1500.00 3 600.00 4,046.11 2 546.11 2 446.11 Breakdown of Resticted Reserves 244611 12 months Tralll￿ Res. 1200.00 FCS Funds 23124 PICash to be reimburst 24 (429.44) Fred Neale BALANCE 2.446.11 after Held over for 25 2,016.67 Shirley Brown Following Bank Account Closing and repaying loans. Cash Alc U oendof ear Balances. pE￿y CASH ACCOUNT- FCS CIO Number 1159899 From October 2023- Feb 24 From Closing Bank Account durring the year. Balance Transferred from Bank Balance £2,446.11 Plus Cash for P/C £ioo.00 TOTAL £2 546.11 Less AMOUNTS PAID our Balance OCTOBER £94.61 £2,451.50 NOVEMBER £41.95 £2,409.52 DECEMBER £66.89 £2,342.63 JANUARY 24 £20.23 £2,322.40 FEBRUARY 24 £29.57 £2 292.83 TOTALS Oct 23 -Feb 24 £253.25 Feb 24 £2 292.83 P/CASH A/C - for the COMPLETE Financial Year 23/24 are added to Oct 23 and Feb 24 = Totals both sections for the whole ear £682.65. art of Petty Cash IVC from Feb 2023 to Sept 23 are Below, Feb 23124 May Aug £40.98 £6727 March June £29.33 £76.13 April July £27.16 £76.46 so far unclaimed until next ear - £429.44 THIS WILL BE ADDED To Restricted AccounL following the end of the THE ACTUAL TOTAL PART PAID FROM PETfY CASHA/c Oct 23 to Feb 24 is £253.25. THIS LEAVES £429,44 to be paid to volunteers following the closure of the financial vear by agreement, so will be placed on Restricted Funds for next year 2024125 LEAVES total of £1 863.39 Available in the Petty Cash to cover next year. PLEASE READ IN CONJUCTION WITH THE BALANCE SHEET UPTO OCT 20 23 an Fred Neale Treasurer Sirley Brown ## **TRUSTEES CHAIRMANS REPORT FCS CIO No 1159899 YEAR 2--02-2023 TO 20-02- 2024** _Trustees:- Fred Neale Chairman, Shirley Brown Treasurer._ I finished off my report last year saying it had been a difficult year for a number of reasons, and we were looking forward to better opportunities for the coming year, well I am sad to say that this has not come to fruition, lots of circumstances still exist following both onward Covid and my own health. It has become the time that I must consider what or how our future will become. This also includes the possibilty of not being able to renew our lease which is a condition of the orignal document, but we maybe able to pass it on as I have had discussions with the Landlords. Following the the difficulty that Covid has had and still does, has such a disasterious effect on the number of volunteers we are able to recrcruit and the working practices introduced on us by the Landlords, including that of my own continued Health conditions, whichI have suffered. I have already mentioned on numerous occassions that I have now had meetings with other Charities who have shown an interest in taking over the running of the FCS Charity. I have not recovered that well from my recent stroke along with other issues. One Local Charity has showns more than an interest, in fact negogiations are well in progress with another Local Charity, who train young adults with various health issues around Autisium, they wish to take on some Gardening Projects and believe this would be an ideal situation for them to run, along with our rooms which could be additional classrooms for them, also the Station is so local to their school. Further to the posibilty of this charity taking on the FCS itself, I will report more when more is known from both Landlords and the Charity’s position, which unfortunately, given past experiences with Landlords, this process will take some time, but hopefully before our Lease expires. In the meanwhile I have agreed with the Chariity so far to attend with their tutors on a few Friday’s using the Resource Room, and doing the odd Litter Picks, replanting and weeding as a start to see if this is going to workout. They are competently observed and monitored at all times by their teaching staff, and I have been present on most occasions. Rules and regulation sessions have been undertaken by all concerned. A meeting with the landlords here at the Station, have given concent in principle, we will just now have to wait for the legalities to be put into practice, This come at an interesting point, as our Lease is due to end durring August 2024. All existing volunteers will have the opportunity to continue if they so wish after the necessary documentations are completed. The situation of funding is bad as we have had no responses from our plees or submission for grants, which again is since Covid. The bank are continuing to charge us now for monthly charges and for each payment we make or deposits into the account along with the monthly charge which are becoming far more than we receive. As it is charity money, I feel it is not what it was given for, just in supporting the Bank, which has a hugh prescence across the world and do not understand the minor needs of a small charity. When we opened this account it was free for charities, but their rules have changed, as are many other bits. They have recently closed our branch and moved the account to Bournemouth, a good few miles away for us, which is in the pedestrian precinct, so no parking facilities. We have had to come to the conclusion to look around for another bank who maybe able help us. In the mean while we will run it from a cash box for volunteer expenses, or nesessary other expenses, as we are holding less money than previously, The bank charges make this more attractive, as each volunteer is happy to wait until we do a monthly payment run. The volunteers have agreed to receive some payments prior to Christmas for their benefit before the holidays. Having now settled a number of outstanding projects that we were expecting to carry out and are now unable to complete as previously expected. Since the loss of much of our historic piecese that were loaned to the Local Universtity Students for their project on the station and cosequently them leaving the University without returning them, we have had less items to show in our resoource room and have concentrated mainly on the upkeep of the gardening projects which we carried out throughout our reduced time here. The efforts have been very well appreciated by the travelling public, with much praise received over the time, so I feel this will be a good opportunity for the Charity interested in continuing with this part of our work we covered. We will continue with our work until we hear more or our Lease expires in late August 2024. We are hoping the local Charity will take over in the new year. FRED NEALE Chairman.