## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From Period start date 1[st] April 2004 to Period end date 31[st] March 2025** **Charity name: Friends of Skelmanthorpe Textile Heritage Centre** ## **Charity registration number: 1162313** ## **Objectives and Activities** |||| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document||**To preserve and protect the property at 6**
**Queen Street, Skelmanthorpe and its**
**historic contents as a textile heritage**
**centre for the public benefit to educate**
**the public regarding the social and textile**
**history within the area.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.||**The main activity of the charity is to open**
**the premises to the public in general on**
**specified both regularly and on appointed**
**days involving national and local events.**
**In addition we encourage groups and**
**families to visit by appointment at any**
**reasonable time. In particular visits from**
**educational establishments are**
**encouraged and special arrangements**
**are made to accommodate larger groups.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit||**The trustees are aware that the activities**
**are for the public benefit as stated in the**
**guidance notices issued by the Charity**
**Commissioners.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** |||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||| |||||| ||Contribution made by
volunteers||**All the day to day activities of the charity**
**are undertaken by unpaid volunteers who**
**are the life blood of our work. In general**
**terms more work is done on a personal**
**face to face meetings with parties and**
**individuals rather than on written or**
**online communications.**|| |||||| ## **Achievements and Performance** |||| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.||**We have managed to get the level of**
**historic knowledge available to more**
**local people and to involve schools to**
**encourage children to become aware and**
**involved in activities relating to local**
**social history.**| |||| |Achievements against
objectives set||**We have had delays and postponement**
**due to various levels of Covid but we are**
**happy to say we have got most projects**
**back on course albeit two or three years**
**delayed.**| |||| |||| |||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period||**The charity is in a strong financial**
**position. Having received an unexpected**
**bequest and an unfettered donation from**
**a local business. This has kept us in a**
**good strong position.**| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)||**On a day to day basis income is from**
**donations from the public and schools**
**together with members subscriptions.**| |||| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity||**Our greatest threat is perceived to be**
**from government changing its view on**
**charities. We have no assets to speak of**
**but others could be viewed differently, in**
**addition we get indirect benefits as we**
**pay no local taxes.**| |||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)||**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)||**A charitable incorporated organisation**
**with voting members other than trustees.**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees||**Trustees are elected on a three year cycle**
**and can be re-elected. The main duties of**
**trustees are to see that the management**
**committee is in place and operating in a**
**proper manner. The main responsibility**
**of trustees is the safe ownership of the**
**property at 6 Queen Street. At present**
**this is property has possessory title until**
**2028 when they can apply for full title.**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Friends of Skelmanthorpe Textile Heritage Centre| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Skelmanthorpe Textile Heritage Centre| |Registered charity number|1162313| |Charity’s principal address|C/O 29a Elmfield Drive, Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Mr H Singleton|Chairman||| ||Mr R W Brook|Secretary||| ||Mr D G Collins|Treasurer||| ||Mr D L Lockwood|||| ||Mr K Waites|||| ||Mr A Weatherby|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## ## ##