## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01/08/2028 Period start date To 31/07/2025 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Rhondda Tunnel Society** ## **Charity registration number: 1162646** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The restoration of the Rhondda Tunnel**
**to the public as a cycling / walking**
**route.**
**Economic benefits to be derived from**
**creating this major attraction in an**
**economically-challenged part of Wales,**
**whilst preserving and enhancing the**
**local environment.**| |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.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Planning application to expose the**
**Blaencwm (Rhondda) tunnel entrance to**
**RCT Council, including commissioning**
**a planning consultant and various**
**environmental reports in support of the**
**application.**
**Announcement of a partnership with**
**Railway Paths Ltd. (a registered charity)**
**to address the long-term ownership of**
**the tunnel at an event in which invited**
**guests were able to enter the tunnel.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Yes**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference **No grants have been made** Para 1.38 Policy on grant making **N/A** Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Volunteers do the following:**
**-**
**Run the shop/office (shop closed**
**on 31/7/2025)**
**-**
**Make regular visits to the tunnel**
**to record its air quality, with**
**special guests;**
**-**
**Preparing a temporary lighting**
**scheme for part of the tunnel for**
**invited guests to experience how**
**it might feel when opened;**
**-**
**Fundraising events;**
**-**
**Preparing the site at Blaencwm**
**ahead of surveys.**| |---|---|---| |Other||**Installing and maintaining the**
**equipment needed to make safe visits to**
**the tunnel, including:**
**-**
**Gas monitors,**
**-**
**Fall-arrest winch and tripod,**
**-**
**Field Telephone,**
**-**
**Helmets, lamps, overalls,**
**harnesses.**| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |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.|Para 1.20|**The Society’s team of retired civil**
**engineers has produced all drawings**
**needed to support its planning**
**application**
**Maintenance of the former Glenrhondda**
**Colliery site that it now owns**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|
**The planning application to expose the**
**Blaencwm entrance has taken much**
**longer than expected.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**The charity shop in Treorchy has been**
**losing money so it was closed on 31st. **
**July, moving to an office in**
**TooGoodToWaste. The Tunnel Tote, the**
**Society’s weekly prize draw continues to**| |||**earn more than £50 per week towards**
**the Society’s funds. The annual**
**subscription was raised from £10 to £15**
**on 01/01/2025.**| |---|---|---| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**The charity keeps its reserve funds,**
**including funds needed to pay out a**
**Tote Jackpot in a Principality BS**
**account which earns interest sufficient**
**to offset inflation.**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Yes**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charity must keep sufficient**
**reserves to pay out a Tote Jackpot win**
**and raise funds in the future to expose**
**the Blaencwm (Rhondda) tunnel**
**entrance.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£14000 on 31/7/2025**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**n/a**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**n/a**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**The charity substantially reduced its**
**ongoing expenses by closing its charity**
**shop in Treorchy on 31/7/2025.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
**Membership**
**Website Sales**
**Donations**
**Fundraising events**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**Keep reserves in the Principality BS**
**account**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**All the trustees are quite elderly. We**
**need to get some younger members**
**more involved.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust Deed**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |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|Para 1.25|**The charity is managed by a main**
**committee of about 16, including**
**trustees. Members of the main**
**committee would usually be invited to**
**become trustees.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|
**Trustees are made aware of their**
**financial responsibility**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The main committee is a wider body of**
**volunteers who make decisions about**
**the direction and management of the**
**charity. Trustees have additional**
**financial responsibility. The chair of a**
**main committee meeting may refer any**
**decision, especially financial, to the**
**trustees for approval.**
**The Charity has a technical**
**subcommittee of retired and practicing**
**civil/mining engineers who advise on all**
**technical issues.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**We have announced a partnership with**
**Railway Paths Ltd. (RPL) to tackle the**
**long-term ownership of the tunnel. RPL**
**owns many ex-railway routes that form**
**part of the National Cycle Network.**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Rhondda Tunnel Society| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1162646| |Charity’s principal address|Rhondda Tunnel Society,
TooGoodToWaste,
Horeb Street,
Treorchy, RCT
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Stephen Mackey|Chair||| ||Jim Maggs|DeputyChair||| ||TonyMoon|Project Secretary||| ||AubreyGreen|||| ||Brian Rees|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved > **Director name none** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| ||**none**|| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets none held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Antony George Moon **Position (eg Secretary,** Secretary **Chair, etc)** **Date** 9[th] . November 2025 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Rhondda Tunnel society Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period from To 01108￿024 3110712025 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds to the neavest Restricted fund$ Endowment funds Total funds Last year to the nearest £ to the neaiest£ to the nearest £ to the neare5E£ A1 Rècèi ts Dtyno)¢ns & CDnlnbubons Fundi8¢ing 1ncoine hum Talks IntsYÈ$l from bank Membershlp Subs¢nptsons Sa Suiidfy Incomè Tote Income 924 650 130 323 10,763 175 610 924 6,346 130 323 10,783 175 810 210 24.056 5,696 9,060 2,366 Cash wath.ng to be deposited in Principality Sub total(Gross income for AR) 1,072 13,775 4896 19,471 37,446 A2 Asset and investment Sales, (see table). Sub total 13,775 5,696 19.471 J7.446 A3 Paymer C05t of Sales Equipment, fixtures & fittings E5tabli5htllent Fundraising Expenses General Adrnin In5urance5 0.00 3,937.64 5,319.96 576 48 81 10 145.60 3,938 5,320 576 1,892 6.282 155 81 146 1.248.40 13,198.04 2.720.13 133.34 825.49 75.00 1.043.85 1.248 13.196 2.720 133 1,068 2.490 1,173 37 Legal & Professional Fees Motor Expenses Sundrv Telecommunic3tlons Tote consolation prize 825 432 75 25 1.044 7,896 1,524 38.725 1,448 Tote Proe Cash p8vJ in 7.896 t.524 30,829 Sub total 7.896 21,205 A4 Asset and investment purchases. Iso• tabl•l Sub fotal 3D,829 7,896 38,725 21,205 Net of recwptsl(paymentsJ A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash ftinds this year end 17,054 2,200 19.254 16.241 28,986 14.778 7,870 2.824 36,8S6 17,602 20,615 36,856 CCXX R1 accounts ISSI 1811012025 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unre$trict&d funds t(> rwre5t£ RÈstric*•d funds to nearest£ Endowmènt funds to nearest£ B1 Cish funds Barcl¥￿ Bank Account 857 Closed Barclays Bank Account .834 275 Piineipalty 149)3 2124 Cash w8tting for Deposit Total cash funds 14,778 2.824 a￿¥)) Unrestrictsd funds to n&arest£ Restricted funds to Dearest£ Endowment funds Dctiils to nearest£ B2 Other monetary assets Fund to which asset bpknn C051 loptK>nall Cuiie4)t value ional Details B3 Investment assets Fund towhich asset belo C05t loptionall CurrerÈtvalue tiona B4 Assets retained for the charlty's own u$e Vehicle 3000 Air Qualty Monitorg 300 FullArrester Gear 400 Harnesse6, Overa¥s, Lam 200 Generato[8 350 Fund towhich relat•8 Amount du* lonal When due nal B5 Liabilities &gned by one ortwo trustees on behalf of all th8 trustees Date of rov81 ture Print N8mè Auditor Martsn Pear50n CCXX R2 accounts ISSI 18110r2025