SYRESHAM VILLAGE HALL ANNUAL REPORT 2024 

Syresham  Village  Hall,  Main  Road  Syresham,  a  CIO  charity  with  the  registration number 1160674, has now been open for almost 6 years. The hall is owned and run by the CIO. The hall is insured by Zurich, and our cover includes all the appropriate liabilities, including that of our members and trustees. 

Our aim is the provision and maintenance of a village hall for the inhabitants of Syresham  and  the  surrounding  area,  without  distinction  of  gender  or  political, religious or other opinions. It is used for meetings and classes and other forms of recreation and leisure activities and events, with the aim of improving the lives of the aforementioned inhabitants. As I have said many times before, it is important that we remind ourselves of this at all times, so that we continue to ensure that we fulfil this aim. 

The village hall continues to be well used by village organisations and people from the surrounding area. In order to aid the work of our Booking Clerk and keep a tighter control on bookings we decided that we would restrict bookings to within a 10 mile radius of the village. This seems to be working well. I would like to thank Gary Mitchell our Booking Clerk and his assistant Steph Mitchell for the excellent work they are doing. 

Last year we held our annual Scarecrow Festival and, after careful deliberation, we decided that 2023 would be the final one. Fewer people were taking part and it was becoming harder to recruit volunteers, so we made the decision that the event had run its course. We also held our annual Art Exhibition which was very successful and will be held again in 2024. Our Coffee Shop has continued to thrive, thanks to the rota of volunteers who bake cakes and run the event each week. I would like to thank all those volunteers for the excellent service they provide, not only to the village hall, but to the village too. 

I would also like to thank the all the Village Hall Trustees for the great work they have done to support and maintain the hall during the last year. As the hall has been open since 2018, we decided that a redecoration was due and I am sure you can now see how clean and fresh to hall is looking. Thanks to Mike Maund for leading this project. 

Our  accounts  remain  in  a  very  healthy  state  and  have  been  prepared  by  our Treasurer, Gill Swinford, and audited by Cathy Corns and I thank them both for this. However, it has to be pointed out that last year our hire income did not cover our running costs, which is something we aim to do every year. Our Treasurer will have more to say on this, but I just wish to state that this is something that we as Trustees are keeping a close eye on. 

We continue to promote the hall on our website www.syreshamvillagehall.co.uk and our thanks go to Keith Watts for managing this website. 

We, as Trustees of the village hall, are also very aware of the need to reduce our carbon footprint and therefore continue to finance a large blue recycling bin for the use of our hirers. We also have a facility to recycle clothes for the village to use. We continue to keep the installation of electric vehicle charging points and solar panels on our agenda for the future. 

Our cleaner, Yvette Gardner, has continued to clean the hall and I thank Yvette for the excellent work she has done during the year. 



We now look forward positively to what promises to be another busy and interesting year for the village hall and we sincerely thank everyone for their continued support. 



## Syresham Village Hall Registered Charity No 1160674 Income and Expenditure Account 1/4/23-31/3/24 

|Income<br>Regular Lets<br>S Essame<br>1,538.00<br>Bowls<br>659.00<br>Mums and Tots<br>588.00<br>Friendship<br>210.00<br>Gardening Club<br>88.00<br>History<br>253.00<br>S Mitchell<br>256.75<br>Taekwon-Do<br>1159.50<br>Seidokan<br>1024.00<br>Gems<br>98.00<br>Jackson<br>372.50<br>6246.75<br>Other Lets<br>Misc Lets<br>5,041.75<br>TYS<br>939.83<br>5981.58<br>Fundraising<br>Coffee Shop<br>5,762.71<br>Scarecrows<br>2,537.50<br>Art Exhibition<br>1,900.60<br>10,200.81<br>Miscellaneous<br>Deposits held<br>4640.00<br>Book Sales<br>9.00<br>4649.00<br>Donations<br>38.00<br>Bank Interest<br>579.44<br>27,695.58|Expenditure<br>Utilities etc<br>Electricity<br>5610.07<br>Insurance<br>900.16<br>Water<br>509.18<br>Licences<br>627.05<br>Websites<br>373.31<br>Phone/Broadband 750.96<br>8770.73<br>Running Cost<br>Cleaner<br>2,026.50<br>Cleaning Materials 293.14<br>Council Tax<br>1748.96<br>Fire Safety<br>345.99<br>Maintenance<br>231.43<br>Alarm Systems<br>1784.20<br>Window Cleaning<br>66.00<br>Grass cuts<br>560.00<br>Recycle Bin<br>689.00<br>Sundries<br>50.54<br>7795.76<br>Fundraising Expenses<br>Coffee Shop<br>498.46<br>Scarecrows<br>956.74<br>Art Exhibition<br>1,302.16<br>2757.36<br>Miscellaneous<br>Deposits repaid<br>4,847.50<br>Acre<br>96.00<br>Postage,print<br>25.96<br>Other<br>21.00<br>4,990.46<br>Income over Expenditure<br>3381.27<br>27,695.58|
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## Syresham Village Hall Registered Charity No 1160674 

|Balance as at 1/04/23||Balance as at 31/03/24||
|---|---|---|---|
|Current Account|14,742.17|Current Account|12,547.12|
|Deposit Account|57,028.76|Deposit Account|62,608.20|
|Cash in Hand|23.49|Cash in Hand|20.37|
|Income over Expenditure|3381.27|||
||75,175.69||75,175.69|



Signed 

Mrs G Swinford Treasurer 

I have checked the Village Hall accounts for the year ending 31[st] March 2024 and find them to be a fair and accurate representation of the transactions undertaken. 

Signed 

Ms C Corns 



# Auditor’s Report to Syresham Village Hall For the Financial Year 2023 - 2024 

## May 2024 

I have independently reviewed the accounts for Syresham Village Hall, Charity No. 1160674, for the year 1[st] April 2023 to 31[st] March 2024 and found no evidence of errors or anomalies. I have signed them. 

Catherine Corns Accounts Examiner