## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1/11/22 Period start date To 31/10/23 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Alford Focal Point** ## **Charity registration number: 11628899** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To establish and operate a community**
**library for Alford in conjunction with**
**Lincolnshire County Council and their**
**agents and Alford Town Council.**
**To create a community resource centre to**
**enhance the promotion of education and**
**social welfare within the community.**| |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|**The operation of the community library for**
**at least 12 hours each week**
**Free hire of the library area for community**
**groups, including Alford Town**
**Promotions, a book club, a music group,**
**war games, bridge club , mahjong club**
**and a warm spot for the elderly and**
**vulnerable in the community.**
**The first floor rooms are used by the**
**Town Council and Alford Hub.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have read the guidance**
**issued by the Charity Commission on**
**public benefit and have paid due regard to**
**it in managing its activities throughout the**
**period of this report.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **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|**Regular opening of the library in**
**partnership with GLL, Lincolnshire**
**County Council and Alford Town Council**
**Recruitment of volunteers from the**
**community to run the library**
**More community groups using the library**
**space**
**Activities for children - Summer Reading**
**Challenge, story telling and craft activities**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Para 1.41 Achievements against objectives set Performance of fundraising activities against objectives Para 1.41 set |||| |---|---|---| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end of
the period|Para 1.21|| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charity will aim to have in reserve**
**such amount as is required to ensure**
**continued operation for up to 18 months.**
**This will ensure that in the event of**
**Lincolnshire County Council withdrawing**
**its annual grant there will be adequate**
**time to apply to other grant funders.**
**New windows and new heating boiler will**
**have to be funded by our reserve fund.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£74,352.07**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **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|| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CIO**
**Foundation Model Constitution as filed**
**with the Charity Commission**| |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|**By existing trustees**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures Para 1.51 adopted for the induction and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Alford Focal Point| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1162899| |Charity’s principal address|6 South Market Place| |---|---| ||Alford| ||Lincolnshire| ||LN13 9AF| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Elizabeth
Ramm|Chair and
volunteer co
ordinator||| ||Victoria Hynes|Vice Chair||| ||Lucy
Iaquaniello|Secretary||| ||Kathryn Walsh|Treasurer||| ||Richard
Quantrell|||| ||Andrew Taylor|||| ||Alan
Whitcombe|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets 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)** Elizabeth Graham Ramm **Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 24/08/24 Alford Foc41 Polni. Statement of Account Flnancl81 Year l Nov 2022- 31 Oct 2023 Income Grants Moniès from Ilbrary setmces Total lrtcome £5,.167.00 £271.90 É5,438.97 ndlture 8usiness rates Insurances TV li￿nce other licences Photocopier rentsl activities Cleanin8 & sundrie5 repairs and refurb Total Expendlture £320.00 £1,616.91 £158.82 £IS9.20 £28.08 £461.44 £340.56 £375.IX) £3,460.01 Opening Balance df from previou5 year Plus income Minu5 Outgolngs C1￿1n8 Balance 310rt 2023 £7L3n. £5,438.90 -£3,460.01 £74,352.07 Bank Balance as at 31 ortober 2023 {minu5 unpresented cheques 190 & 193 £74,536.68 -£184.61 74352.07 Accounts to my knowledge are complete and correct; Signed: Dated..