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– Malmesbury Skate Park Group Registered Charity 1161210 Annual Trustees Report for the operational year 06/04/2025 to 05/04/2025.

Statement Of Charitable Purpose.

In 2015 the charity was formed to keep the doors open and sessions running in the newly built indoor skate park facility in Malmesbury , Wiltshire. The local council were in a position of leaving the Riverside youth centre and thus the doors would have closed on the newly built skate park should a solution not be found to keep the park open.

A group of volunteers formed and began the process of starting the charity in order to take on independent control of the park and run sessions for all ages, sexes and all people regardless of their locality or background. That we would provide a safe location for action sports to take place within a set of a controlled supervised sessions.

The goals being:

  1. Volunteers would open the park and run as many supervised skate park sessions as possible per week.

  2. Volunteers would be first aid trained and liaise with the councils youth workers in order to provide essential support for the young people using the facility.

  3. Volunteers would take on all repair and maintenance work in the park including some interior fixtures and fittings.

  4. Volunteers would promote the park and Skateboarding within our local community as a healthy form of exercise and activity.

  5. Volunteers would engage in a number of fundraising exercises to become self sufficient financially and take on the various roles of providing an income to secure the parks future.

  6. Volunteers would manage the finances, income and expenditure to ensure we met our goals with long term financial security in place.

  7. Volunteers would take on the legal elements of running a charity, to ensure adherence to the valid laws and regulations that support a charity within the UK.

  8. Volunteers would comply legally to safeguarding and child protection laws/rules.

  9. Volunteers would ensure all forms of licence and insurance were valid and in place.

  10. Volunteers would support local schools, clubs, community groups, town council projects and sporting activities within the town in order to play an active role in developing our profile and thus gain awareness and support to our cause.

  11. Volunteers would teach ,coach and train skateboarding to the park users. They would also support Skateboarding by taking an active role in the wider skateboarding community to promote a positive image.

  12. Further increase our skate sessions, have more of an impact and presence in our local community and undertake more fundraising tasks in order to again secure the longer future operation and stability of Malmesbury Skate Park.

  13. Engage with local music and arts festivals and organisations in order to work more closely with them for charity awareness and fundraising.

  14. Digital marketing to improve, new booking system and class tracker to be investigated, tendered and provided for the park. For better record keeping, visibility on sessions and to allow for better online visibility and planning

  15. To support all volunteers through a difficult and challenging year, to provide guidance, mentoring and advice if needed to help from within.

Performance against these goals

  1. The volunteer team successfully run an increased amount of openings per week. . All age ,genders and abilities included - 280 sessions run for the community including 1140 bookings !!!! breaking records again!

  2. All volunteers first aid trained and liaisons with the council youth work team took place regularly. Support given to all volunteers. New volunteers trained and on board. Team first aid training session focussed on life support and sporting injuries.

  3. All repairs made and park cracks fixed ourselves to a high standard, no other repairs needed.

  4. Volunteers coordinated with again with community meetings and groups in order to promote the park and its activities. Close links continued with our neighbours the Riverside community centre. Volunteers attended sessions with the school, the mayor and the police in order to help work in the community in tackling antisocial behaviour with positive mentoring activity again, this is an exciting ongoing piece. Work also begun supporting the Mamesbury Community park project which aims to build an outdoor youth facility skatepark and pumptrack to further provide these activities in our town. Volunteers also work on both projects and the Chairman has provided coaching, support and experience to the new team setting up and beginning their charity,

  5. Fundraising activity continued in the community with regular pushes for donations and support. The booking fee for online session spaces has proved a successful method of raising funds via the Classfit app.This year also saw a huge number of public donations from the successful event run at the Womad festival in Malmesbury – Public donations from this event were extremely positive and welcomed into the annual pot.

  6. The treasurer managed the finances very responsibly and an analytical approach to expenditure has ensured controls in place that make sure only essential spending occurs. The accounts and bank have been managed very responsibly ensuring reporting on this is most efficient. In 2024/2025 we have changed bank accounts and treasurer and this has proved very successful with much better admin via the Coop bank compared to Lloyds and greater visibility due to their better IT solution and app - they are also more geared towards supporting charities and so this has been a major improvement.

  7. Compliance to all legal elements of running the charity and park has been a full team effort and documentation all in place to support our internal processes. Policies all maintained including new versions of child safeguarding and welfare policies – All stored securely on line and delivered to all volunteers to ensure education and compliance.

  8. All volunteers have been security checked by an independent agency to support child protection rules. Child safeguarding processes are in place and we know our line of reporting should we have any concerns that need to be escalated. DBS all completed to an enhanced level.

  9. All licences and insurances in place. Tender processes undertaken to ensure best value for money.

  10. Volunteers have attended many community meetings and activities - Schools, council, youth work and liaising with other local sports groups has all occurred and helped promote the park, support the community and bring in more new faces!

  11. Volunteers have mentored and taught young people skills on a weekly basis, we have also undertook limited travel to other skate parks with some of the young people in order to support and enhance their skills.

  12. The volunteer team run with stability and experience in this year. - The chairman undertook an increased amount of community liaison and work with the mayor, police and schools and this continues to be a strong part of the charities engagement within the Malmesbury community.

13. In July 2024 we fully achieved this objective by running a successful childrens workshop at the Womad festival, over the weekend we trained and coached over 1000 children and received a huge amount of praise and support - this raised some money in donations, raised community awareness and awareness with all of the visitors to the festival. This will be an ongoing this we hope due to its huge success – We can also report this brought in more beginners to our regular coaching sessions at the park.

  1. Digital marketing improved with lots of posts to social media, gaining an audience of 2000 people on Instagram and Facebook. We continue to have to use Classfit as whilst it is not the best solution it is free and most competitor products will cost the charity money - so it’s a possible future objective when a better IT solution is found but not at the charities expense.

  2. Again the objective was achieved by the team helping the team, unity and morale is still at an all time high with an extremely supportive and hard working team in place. Amazing support network in place for volunteers and the wider community. We have seen this community support increase due to our activities outside of the skatepark supporting the local community, raising awareness , PR and marketing and of course having a large presence at the Womad festival which saw us delivering free skate lessons to 100s of children, not just local and so sharing our activities far and wide.

  3. There should be special attention paid to the achievement of joining and becoming part of the SkateboardGB affiliated coaching and supported skateparks programme. SkateboardGB fund, manage and support the TeamGB Olympic team and youth coaching and safeguarding programmes.

In early 2025 it was recognised that the hard work of the Malmesbury team would fit this profile and so an affiliation was made and a supportive relationship begun.

This makes sure that the community and people of Malmesbury are now coached and trained to recognised supportive standards.Its the top accolade and recognition we could receive and therefore aids and supports the strength of the charity and its objectives well into the future as part of Team GBs Olympic coaching framework.

This exceeds expectations set out in all objectives and contributes to a massive recognition of the performance against all objectives.

A huge well done to all.

LATE 2025 HOLDS A HUGE RISK FOR THE CHARITY IN THAT THE LEASE OF THE BUILDING AND SKATEPARK IS UP FOR RENEWAL AND SO WORK BEGUN EARLY IN 2025 TO SECURE THE FUTURE OF THE PARK CAMPAIGNING WITH THE LOCAL COUNCILS, PRESS AND COMMUNITY – THIS WILL BE ADDED TO THE 2025 OBJECTIVES LIST AND THE TEAM ARE FULLY MOBILISED TO SAVE THE PARK SHOULD ANY RISK OF RENEWAL PRESENT ITSELF.

THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE FOR THE FUTURE YEAR OF 2025 TO 2026 IS TO SAVE OUR SKATEPARK

Un-audited Accounts For Malmesbury Skate Park Group – Registered Charity 1161210

For the period 06/04/2024 to 05/04/2025

Treasurer – Mr Stephen Dimbylow

Summary

Opening Statement £2893.81 Funds In £1487.57 Funds Out £1271.83 Closing Balance £3109.55 

        - 15 boards now on site for use.

Structure and Management

Stephen Dimbylow – Treasurer

Alan Holt – Secretary

Matthew Wigley – Chairman

All trustee positions were agreed would continue into 2025/2025

Jo Morris, Rob Pattinson, Gina Tiplady, James Threlfall, Tim Hipkin (SBGB Coach) , Dale Peters ,Tom Burton , Charlotte Lyon , Chris Bratton, Chloe A’Bear and Stuart White would form the core volunteer/coaching team for the foreseeable future.

Regular drives for more volunteers will continue.

In conclusion again the Chairman would like to state that all of the years goals were met brilliantly and all objectives exceeded – AGAIN! Thanks to the hugely supportive team and community.

The Chairman would like to extend his thanks to the volunteer team and wider community in achieving all of the above again for another year.

With thanks to our volunteers, supporters and assistants for a successful 2024 and beginning of 2025

Un-audited Accounts For Malmesbury Skate Park Group – Registered Charity 1161210

For the period 06/04/2024 to 05/04/2025 Treasurer – Mr Stephen Dimbylow Summary Opening Statement £2893.81 Funds In £1487.57 Funds Out £1271.83 Closing Balance £3109.55

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Transaction Date Transaction Description Debit Amount Credit Amount Balance
05/04/2025 CLOSING BALANCE 3109.55
01/04/2025 SESSION PAYMENT IN FROM CLASSFIT 123.76 3109.55
03/03/2025 SESSION PAYMENT IN FROM CLASSFIT 109.05 2985.79
24/02/2025 DONATIONS FROM BURTS BOARDS 60 2876.74
03/02/2025 SESSION PAYMENT IN FROM CLASSFIT 84.02 2816.74
17/01/2025 SKATEBOARD GB MEMBERSHIP 250
02/01/2024 SESSION PAYMENT IN FROM CLASSFIT 101.75 2982.72
02/12/2024 SESSION PAYMENT IN FROM CLASSFIT 90.61 2880.97
01/11/2024 SESSION PAYMENT IN FROM CLASSFIT 139.23 2790.36
01/10/2024 SESSION PAYMENT IN FROM CLASSFIT 83.98 2651.13
02/09/2024 SESSION PAYMENT IN FROM CLASSFIT 41.91 2567.15
08/08/2024 PUBLIC DONATIONS FROM WOMAD 9.75 2525.24
02/08/2024 PUBLIC DONATIONS FROM WOMAD 100.42 2515.49
01/08/2024 SESSION PAYMENT IN FROM CLASSFIT 72.93 2415.07
30/07/2024 PUBLIC DONATIONS FROM WOMAD 156.50 2342.14
30/07/2024 PUBLIC DONATIONS FROM WOMAD 9.75 2185.64
26/07/2024 PUBLIC DONATIONS FROM WOMAD 1.97 2175.89
27/07/2024 PURCHASE OF DECORATIVE ITEMS FOR WOMAD 30.00 2173.92
22/07/2024 PURCHASE OF WOOD FOR RAMP REPAIRS 76.73 2203.92
01/07/2024 SESSION PAYMENT IN FROM CLASSFIT 79.56 2280.65
03/06/2024 SESSION PAYMENT IN FROM CLASSFIT 70.72 2201.09
07/05/2024 PAYMENT FROM MALMESBURY SCOUTS 50.00 2130.37
01/05/2025 SESSION PAYMENT IN FROM CLASSFIT 101.66 2080.37
29/04/2024 PARK INSURANCE LIABILITY INSURANCE 915.10 1978.71
06/04/2024 OPENING BLANCE 2893.81
TOTALS 1271.83 1487.57 215.74
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