**Bestwood Park Community Association** (Registered charity, number 1162080) **Financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025**
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|2 - 3|Trustees’ annual report|
|4|Receipts & payments account|
|5|Statement of assets & liabilities|
|6|Notes to the accounts|
## **Bestwood Park Community Association Trustees’ annual report for the year ended 31 March 2025**
**Full name** Bestwood Park Community Association
**Organisation type** Charitable incorporated organisation
## **Registered charity number** 1162080 **Principal address**
227 Beckhampton Road, Bestwood Park, Nottingham, NG55NE (Previously Bestwood Park Community Centre
## **Trustees**
Brian Grocock, Chair Shona Caulton, Treasurer Vacant (Shona Caulton supporting), secretary Katrina Woodward
## **Governance and management**
The charity is operated under the rules of its constitution adopted 24[th ] February 2015
Overall management of the charity is the responsibility of the trustees who are elected and co-opted at the AGM
## **Objectives and activities**
The principal object of the charity is to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of the Bestwood Park Estate, and the neighbourhood without distinction of sex, or of political, religious, or other opinions, by association the local authorities, voluntary organisations, and inhabitants, in a common effort to advance education, and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the inhabitants.
To establish, or secure the establishment of, a community centre and to maintain and manage the same (whether alone or in co-operation with any statutory authority or other person or body) in furtherance of the objects; To promote such other charitable purposes as may from time to time be determined. The charity shall be non-party in politics and non-sectarian in religion. The area of benefit shall be the Bestwood Park estate area of Nottingham and the neighbourhood together defined by trustees as the surrounding areas.
## **Public benefit statement**
The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 4 of the Charities Act 2006 to have due regard to the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit, 'Charities and Public Benefit'
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## **Bestwood Park Community Association**
## **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit** The main activities are:
Sustainability of organisation
## **Summary of the main achievements during the period**
Food parcels to families feeling hardship. Community excursion to Mablethorpe
## **The charity’s policy on reserves**
The policy on reserves is to save enough money to enable the organisation to operate for 3 months on reserve amount.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:
Signed Name, Trustee
Shona Caulton
Date 11/07/2025
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## **Bestwood Park Community Association Receipts & payments account for the year ended 31 March 2025**
||**Bestwood Park Community Association**
**Receipts & payments account for**
**the year ended 31 March 2025**||
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||_2024_
£
**Note**
**Receipts**
-
Grants & donations
Fundraising
7
-
Bank interest
Sundry receipts
Unidentified receipts|**_2025_**
**£**
-
-
5.67
-
-|
||7
**Total receipts**|**5.67**|
||**Payments**
-
Professional fees
Payroll service
-
Travel & training
Supervision
-
Volunteer expenses
-
Rent & room hire Utilities
Premises maintenance
Cleaning
Telephone, internet & postage
-
675.00
-
Printing & stationery Equipment,
repairs & renewals Activities &
trips
Courses
-
Hospitality
-
Sundry payments|316.00
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-|
||675.0
**Total payments**|**316**|
||||
||(668)
**Net receipts/(payments)**|**(310.33)**|
||2623.45
Cash funds at start of thisperiod|3291.45|
||3291.45
**Cash funds at end of this period**|**3601.78**|
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## **Bestwood Park Community Association**
## Statement of assets and liabilities **March for the year ended 31 March 2025**
|_2024_
£
**Cash assets**
**Note**
3601.78
-
Bank accounts
Cash in hand|_2024_
£
**Cash assets**
**Note**
3601.78
-
Bank accounts
Cash in hand||**_2025_**
**£**
3601.78
-|
|---|---|---|---|
||**3291.45**||**3601.78**|
||**Other monetary assets**
Debtors
Investments||-
-|
||-||**-**|
||**Assets retained for the charity’s own**
**use**
**Liabilities**
-
Creditors utilities Advance receipts||-
-
**-**|
||-|||
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These financial statements are accepted on behalf of the charity by:
Signed Dated 11/07/2025
Name, Trustee Shona Caulton
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## **Bestwood Park Community Association Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025**
## **1. Receipts & payments accounts**
Receipts and payments accounts contain a summary of money received and money spent during the period and a list of assets and liabilities at the end of the period. Usually, cash received and cash spent will include transactions through bank accounts and cash in hand.
## **2. Grants & donations**
None
## **3. Premises & staff**
The premises are provided by the nursery
## **4. Trustees’ remuneration**
The trustees received no renumeration or benefits during this period
## **5. Related party transactions**
No related party transactions during this period
## **6. Previous period comparison**
The previous period’s figures have not been included for comparison because the layout used in the previous period was substantially different and does not lend itself to clear comparison.
## **7. Glossary of terms**
**Advance receipts:** These are amounts received by the charity in the accounting period, for use in a future period.
**Creditors:** These are amounts owed by the charity, but not paid during the accounting period.
**Debtors:** These are amounts owed to the charity, but not received in the accounting period.
**Prepayments:** These are services that the charity has paid for in advance, but not used during the accounting period
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